OMNEST - What's New in the 6.0 Version

This is a maintenance release with dozens of bug fixes.

Configure and setenv:

configure now mandates having setenv sourced before it runs.
setenv now sets OMNETPP_IMAGE_PATH, in order to prevent model
frameworks from accidentally making OMNeT++ bundled icons unaccessible
from Qtenv by simply appending to OMNETPP_IMAGE_PATH.
configure now creates configure.user from configure.user.dist
if it does not already exist.

Simulation kernel:

Improved overflow checking in SimTime operator=() methods
Better commenting of cGate::connectTo() and disconnect(), and some other methods
Fix in ConstantFilter to return the constant value from getInitialDoubleValue()
Fix for missing initialization of some result filters
Fix in cDatarateChannel to clear finished transmissions from txList
Fix for the issue where intuniform() had a broken bounds check
Disallowing changes to arrival time and scheduling priority in cEvent when scheduled
Fix for startup error complaining about arg count of hypot()
Addition of cEventHeap::checkHeap() for potential FES debugging
Introduction of a panic() function and ASSERT_DTOR() for throwing from destructors
Fix for warnings in the code

IDE:

IDE update to Tycho 2.7.5, Eclipse 4.29, CDT 11.3, and removal of ansiconsole plugin
Error message display improvement in Simulation Model Installer
Checking for dangling project references in IDE
Workaround for "Unhandled event loop" exceptions in Inifile Editor
Fix for "String index out of range: 0" in Inifile Editor
Detection of duplicate submodule names in NED
Compatibility with Matplotlib 3.8 in Analysis Tool
Improved error/warning message display in Analysis Tool
Adjustments to zoom and legend behavior in native plots in Analysis Tool
Preselection of all temp charts in "Save On Close" dialog in Analysis Tool
Support for key events in Matplotlib for x/y navigation modes in Analysis Tool
Fix leaking cursor resources in Analysis Tool
Workaround for display glitch in Analysis Tool's "Choose table columns" dialog
Periodic reload of user's chart templates in Analysis Tool
Improved zoom behavior in native plots in Analysis Tool
Trimming from left instead of right for right-aligned table columns in Analysis Tool
Parameter type display improvement in Analysis Tool
Support for displaying vectors with bool data type in Analysis Tool
Workaround for crash in SWT table and tree widgets in Analysis Tool
Ensure reading all NED files in NED Documentation Generator
Resolution of unresolved module interface in NED Documentation Generator
Fix for unreadable text in dark theme in generated NED source listing
Tooltip content improvements for submodules in generated NED documentation
Default navigation target changes for submodule types in generated NED documentation
Fix for bug #939 in Sequence Chart

Qtenv:

Error handling improvement in the Object Inspector
Focus adjustment in the Run Selection dialog
Purge message animations when their messages are rotated out of the LogBuffer
Fix simulations stopping spontaneously when running in FAST mode
Message animations made more tolerant of degeneration connections
Clamp non-zero computed animation speed to at least 1e-9
Proper rendering of degenerate connections
Fix for missing logs with disabled event/initialization banners
Fix for non-working parameter replacements in channel display strings
Fix assertion failure on stopping eventlog recording
Fix for includes in osg.msg
Refactoring for code clarity, warning elimination

Python (omnetpp.scave.* packages):

Use of pandas.concat instead of deprecated DataFrame.append
Fix to hide legend in Matplotlib plots if it was empty
Fixed division by zero warnings in timeavg filter
Fix to prevent turning scalars of value 0 into NaNs
Added missing docstring in analysis.py of omnetpp/scave
Fixed a subtle bug related to mutable objects as default values
Look for projects by real name instead of directory name
Improved treatment of workspace_dir and error handling in get_project_location()
Fixed error if a renamed project is not directly under the Eclipse workspace directory
Improved error message for project not found errors
Reload mpl and plt before exporting an image for reproducibility in opp_charttool
Added "python" folder of referenced projects to python path in opp_charttool

Other:

Fix wrong bounding box for Graphviz-generated images in the manual
Fix stray LaTeX comments showing up in the HTML version of the manual
Allow running tests in other than "debug" mode
Fix for bug #1055 during Windows builds

What's New in OMNEST 6.0.2

What's New in OMNEST 6.0.1